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ITF
Keynote to Open Top European Transport Event
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ITF Secretary-General José Viegas will deliver an opening keynote speech
on Innovation in Transport at the plenary session "From Research to Deployment: a Driver for Job
Creation in Europe" at the 2014 Transport Research Arena
(TRA), on 14 April in Paris. France currently holds the ITF Presidency. The
European
Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, will also deliver a keynote speech during
the session. TRA is the major
conference on transport in Europe, bridging the gap between research and the
market to improve European transport competitiveness, with over 3 000
participants expected. Mr Viegas will also moderate a session on "Urban
Innovation and Change: the Dynamic Nexus of Transport, Environment and
Health", in the presence of Khatuna Gogaladze, Georgian Minister of
Environment and Natural Resources Protection, on 14 April.
Stephen
Perkins, ITF Head of Research, will speak at the "Road Safety Economics:
Highlights for Public Decision Making", on 14 April and also at the session
on "International Co-operation in Transport Research" on 15 April. ITF
Economist Jari Kauppila will deliver a speech at the session on "Sharing
Crash Modification Functions (CMF): an OECD Report Offers a World of
Possibilities", also on 15 April.
ITF Head of Policy and Summit
Preparation Mary Crass will moderate the Gala Dinner of the Women's Issues
in Transportation Conference on 14 April, to be attended by Jean Todt President
of the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and Michelle Yeoh, Global Ambassador for the Make Roads Safe campaign.
Stephen Perkins will chair the "Bridging the Gap Among Countries" session
of the conference on 16 April.
A seminar on "The Impact of Distracted Driving and Fatigue on
Road Safety" organised by ITF during TRA will address the concerns
for safety linked to use of mobile and on-board information in vehicles on
15 April.
More information on the
Distracted Driving Seminar
TRA Official Website
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| ITF to Honour Outstanding Research in Transport |
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With just six weeks to go until
the ITF Annual Summit on "Transport for a Changing World" on 21-23 May
in Leipzig, Germany, the names and projects of candidates shortlisted
for the 2014 Young Researcher Award have been announced. From
applications from 19 countries, the jury have selected four candidate
young researchers:
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Hugo Badia Rodríguez, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain;
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Zhenhua Chen, George Mason University, USA
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Francesc Soriguera, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain;
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Shanjiang Zhu, George Mason University, USA.
More on the shortlisted authors
Recently confirmed Summit speakers include:
- Gerry Brownlee, Minister of
Transport of New Zealand;
- Temel Kotil, CEO, Turkish Airlines
- one of Europe's four largest airlines;
- Patrick McLoughlin, Secretary of State for Transport, UK;
- Cindy Miller,
CEO Europe, United Parcel Service (UPS), the leading shipping, freight,
logistics and supply chain operator;
- Seoung-hwan Suh, Korean Minister of Land and
Transport.
See all confirmed speakers
The full multilingual programme
is now available online in
English,
French,
German and
Russian.
Only
one week remains to avail of discounted early registration fees
Register now
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| Rethinking Urban Transport for a Changing World |
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Policy makers face both challenges and opportunities from the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT)
and a rapidly changing
demography, most noticeable in East Asia.
The ICT revolution is
influencing lifestyles by enabling previously unthinkable levels of information exchange and connectivity. The transport sector needs to adapt to these changes and focus on the opportunities they present,
most evident in an urban context, where rapid growth of cities poses enormous challenges for transport, but increasing connectivity is already becoming part of the answer.
A seminar
held in Seoul, Korea,
jointly organised by the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) and the ITF, looked at "Urban Transport for a Changing World" in an Asian context, with a focus on China, Japan and Korea.
Secretary-General Viegas
delivered a speech on
"Urban Mobility at the
Crossroads" (pdf) on 27 March.
The seminar's findings
will provide important
input for ITF's upcoming
2014 Summit of Transport
Ministers.
In
Seoul, Mr Viegas
met with the
Korean Minister of Land
and Transport,
Seoung-hwan Suh
to discuss the Forum's
activities and Summit
preparation.
Seminar information on the KOTI website
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Improving Global Supply Chain Resilience was the focus of a workshop
jointly organised by ITF and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
and co-sponsored by 14 countries in Christchurch, New Zealand on 26-28
March for which ITF's Research Centre prepared the keynote paper. ITF
Head of Research Stephen Perkins led discussions with APEC's working groups on Transportation and
Emergency Preparedness. Meetings on enhancing engagement and an
examination of research priorities were held with the New
Zealand Ministry of Transport in Wellington on 31 March.
Results of the ITF's
Roundtable on the Economics of
Investment in High-Speed Rail were presented by
Stephen Perkins at the Florence School of Regulation's
2nd Florence Intermodal Forum Workshop on "High-speed rail vs. low-cost
air: competing or complementary modes?" on 3 March in Florence, Italy.
A presentation on "Regional Connectivity: Identifying and Capturing the Benefits",
grouping results from four ITF Roundtables on economic assessment and
wider economic benefits,
was given by Stephen Perkins at the Sintropher Consortium
Conference in Brussels, Belgium on 27 February.
Secretary-General
José Viegas delivered an opening plenary speech on "Urban Mobility at
the Crossroads" at the 24th edition of the Transport Scientific Days at
the Technical University of Dresden, Germany on 20 March. The annual
event presents new research in transport technologies and policies
at
German and European level to an academic core of around 300
participants.
Elene Shatberashvili, delivered a presentation on
"Policy, Data and Research" highlighting ITF's current work on road
transport at the 76th session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Inland Transport Committee, held in Geneva, Switzerland on 25-27
February.
Mary Crass, ITF's Head of Policy and Summit Preparation,
travelled to Lisbon as a member of the Transportation Research Board's
Access and Mobility Committee to prepare the next TRANSED
Conference, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 28-31 July 2015.
The conference will focus on transport and mobility issues for
disabled and older people.
The Joint Transport
Research Committee (JTRC) held its biannual meeting on
8-9 April,
electing Kevin Womack of the USA Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
as its new chair. Huge appreciation was shown for outgoing chair Richard
Thivierge's six-year tenure. The meetings of the Transport Management Board (TMB)
and Summit Task Force follow on 15-16 April, to finalise
preparations for the 2014 Summit. The next meeting
of the ITF Corporate
Partnership Board will take
place on 22 May 2014
during the 2014 Summit in Leipzig,
Germany.
ITF is very pleased to welcome
new staff members:
Xumei Chen, from the China
Academy of Transportation Sciences, a think tank under the leadership of the
Chinese Ministry of Transport, will be working with
the ITF Transport Outlook 2014 team to manage urban transport data from
China and work on transport policy overviews of Chinese cities.
Delphine Malbrancq-Duclos joins ITF from the OECD
to work on the Group on Road Transport and to assist the
Secretariat's Management Support Unit.
Klara Mikulikova has been seconded to the ITF from the Foreign Affairs
Unit of the Czech Ministry of Transport where she is responsible for
coordinating the ministry's membership with international transport
organisations. Klara will be working on Summit preparation.
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